Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
Who then is sane? He who is not a fool.
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.
The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at.
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.
In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last; then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon.
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.
That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.
Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Remember to be calm in adversity.
Books have their destinies.
We are all gathered to the same fold.